Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Unfinished Doctor Strange

Checked out Essential Doctor Strange from the library and was inspired to draw him on a recent bus ride. No Ditko in this collection, but there was some Brunner and Colan. It included a Dracula crossover. Generally not great stuff, but not necessarily awful either. I find Steve Englehart's writing more and more difficult to tolerate as I get older. I think he has some cool ideas but at times he presents them in an awkward fashion.

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I progressed through so little of the history of Dr Strange. It was all about that special astral playground of Ditko's brain.I have a copy somewhere of a special issue of Mike Mignola doing a Dr Starnge Dr Doom special issue. This way before Mike Mignola was Mike Mignola. I'll have to find that.LI like the sketch. Do a funny caption for it and you're done with a nearsighted comics. I'll try one."My name is Strange. I'll be your waiter tonight."

@ Rick: Love it--really fun sketch, and I like how you get a more narrow-headed, cerebral suaveness to yr Dr. More like a William Powell Dr. Strange--an old-fashioned way of seeing the leading man. You can't have a leading man like that now. Her has to have more muscles.